Ever heard of “Cookies” . Well they might sound like those warm little things your mother or wife makes, but they are far more evil than that. Those little “Cookies” track your every move across the internet and tells people alot about YOU.

Welcome to Data Mining 101. We knew you would be reading this as we have been tracking your every move since you logged on. Does that statement not give you the creaps? Well it should unless you are brain dead. More information is collected each day from users on the internet that it would be impossible to surf the internet without those cookies.

Cookies can tell others where you have been, what you have looked at and what you like, and they keep track of these cookies for a long time. Google keeps its cookies for……well they are set to expire by 2038. Nope those numbers are not dog years, that is human years. The cookie on your computer will expire in well 30 plus years from now. Basically it is forever as you will either be very old or dead by the time the cookie expires! You could think of them as fortune cookies, at least they are making someone else a fortune!

How much does Google know about you? Look at the statement that it has made!

” We are moving to a Google that knows more about you.”

— Google CEO Eric Schmidt, speaking to financial analysts,
February 9, 2005, as quoted in the New York Times the next day

What is in that Google Cookie?

Expires on January 17, 2038

PREF=ID=9ea1e821792b6a4a (Speaks for itself)
TM=1140572783 (The first time you got the cookie)
LM=1140572783 (The last time you set preferances)
S=kdoj3S8mVkQicfbl (Validation data)

So now Google knows your IP address. An IP address is like your street address. It tells anyone where you are connecting from. From the IP anyone can trace the country you are in and the ISP you are using. Contacting the ISP and giving them the date, time and IP address, they can tell you who it was. But this is not needed with Google!

When you log onto your GMail account, Google knows who you are. Its cookies can track you around the internet checking not only your search terms but could also match it to what is in your email box. If I had flight schedules in my email and I was checking home made bomb devices, that would flag my account, would it not? Afterall, Google checks your email account by scanning for keywords for the use of its “advertisers”. Checking your keywords in your email and matching them to your search terms would get you flagged. It would be just to easy as it is automated.

What is wrong about that. I can take YOUR email address and if you are flagged, I can check who you are sending and recieving email from. Then I flag those accounts too. Connecting the dots.

But it goes further!

But is that not the point to it all. Google has narrowed it down to the individual! They have lied! Would that be a first?

http://www.google.com/privacy_archive.html

Data Collection:

Google search, the Google Toolbar, Google News and some other services do not require any personally identifying information.

But then it says:

Cookies:

Upon your first visit to Google, a cookie is sent to your computer that uniquely identifies you(r) browser.

Inquiries to Google about their privacy policies are ignored. When the New York Times (2002-11-28) asked Sergey Brin about whether Google ever gets subpoenaed for this information, he had no comment.